| Item | Label | Content | Brief description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Book | Sean Carroll's 'Making of the Fittest' | Wonderful, interesting fact-supported read AND refs to published scientific literature | Web link |
| 2 | Video collection | HHMI's BioInteractive site | Not actually interactive, but informative movies! | Web link |
| 3 | Layperson-friendly overview | Article in 'The Scientist' | Describes 3 causative changes in humans; looks @ other species | Web link |
| 4 | Opsinize | Interactive thinkBio interactive investigation | Turn a 'red' sensing opsin into a 'green' sensing one... by mutation! | Web link |
| 6 | Go_Opsin | Retinal; Opsin membrane location | 3D graphical tutorial; initial work by Frieda Reichsman | Web link |
| 8 | Phylogenetic tree | Hayden-McNeil image | I've requested permission to share this; no word yet | Web link |
| 10 | Yokoyama lab | Source of a lot of primary research into opsin amino acid sequence/function | See the Publications link, 'Genetics and adaptation of vertebrate vision' | Web link |
| 14 | U. Utah Webvision | Thorough, nice graphics & content | Extensive tutorial, broad range of vision info | Web link | 16 | Opsins in Cichlid fishes | Different colors and environments, different opsins on | Cichlids are the result of very rapid diversification in African lakes | Article Review | 18 | Butterfly wings vs. opsins | Correlations between opsin capabilities and wing pigments | Briscoe et al. | PNAS paper | 11 | Reconstructing mutation order | By creating different combinations, determine likely order of actual mutations (some opsin sequences => inactive protein, so not correct path). ***This is UV => Blue, not red/green | Ying et al., PLOS One | Science Daily article |